It is teacher appreciation week on my kid's school, and today is flower day.
I needed to send specific flowers for each teacher, and decided to send paper flowers for them.
My sister told I could use coffee filters to make flowers, so I gave it a try.
Mrs. Shumsky likes
hydrangeas, so I used a styrofoam ball and glued small petals that I cut.
After dried I used a green piper cleaner for the stem.
Mrs. Sommi likes
Lillies, so I cut larger petals on the coffee filters.
Then a technique I learned from my father, I used the back of the scissors, and held the petal with my thumb on the other side. Then I pulled upwards, to make a little curl on the petal (you have to hold the base of the petal with the other hand- mine was holding the camera).
PS: Sorry for the bad manicure.
Then I taped them together around a pipe cleaner.
The pistils (really not sure if this is the correct name) of the flower I made using yellow polymer clay attached to a few pieces of wire.
And then I placed them in cones made from a brighter paper, and a pretty ribbon.
They came out nice and delicate, hopefully they will survive the bus ride with the boys.
It is teacher appreciation week on my kid's school, and today is flower day.
I needed to send specific flowers for each teacher, and decided to send paper flowers for them.
My sister told I could use coffee filters to make flowers, so I gave it a try.
Mrs. Shumsky likes hydrangeas, so I used a styrofoam ball and glued small petals that I cut.
After dried I used a green piper cleaner for the stem.
Mrs. Sommi likes Lillies, so I cut larger petals on the coffee filters.
Then a technique I learned from my father, I used the back of the scissors, and held the petal with my thumb on the other side. Then I pulled upwards, to make a little curl on the petal (you have to hold the base of the petal with the other hand- mine was holding the camera).
PS: Sorry for the bad manicure.
Then I taped them together around a pipe cleaner.
The pistils (really not sure if this is the correct name) of the flower I made using yellow polymer clay attached to a few pieces of wire.
And then I placed them in cones made from a brighter paper, and a pretty ribbon.
They came out nice and delicate, hopefully they will survive the bus ride with the boys.
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